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First of all,we should not take anything the Alexandrian writes particularly seriously. Second, asking players to fill in details...

Which ones specifically do you disagree about? I could understand saying something similar to @Micah Sweet re: overall viewpoint but I...

School of Knowledge has better access to their Vault anyway, as they get the reduced Recall Cost feature. I'm fine with 5 Domain Cards...

Yeah I think a lot of people here do, because it's when they really got into RPGs, especially as the internet came online and they...

I always judge RPGs by 1989-2001 standards (2e to 3e, essentially).

I definitely agree that 5e is on the heavy end of the "crunch" spectrum. I think the idea of it being less crunchy is a familiarity...

It's definitely gotten a glow-up since release. I find myself repeatedly returning to that game.

I finally decided to start Cyberpunk 2077 again. I played it (on a pretty rugged PC) right when it came out and really enjoyed it. But I...

Definitely agree. I've seen this a bunch with older point-based systems. I thought I felt that way for most of the time I played RPGs...

I think there are a few solutions to the "used to struggle to fight gobos, but now they are easier to kill than insects" type tall...

I don't have much comment on this but as a general rule of design I would say it is an unbreakable law that if your CharGen uses point...

Fate is interesting because it serves as a light crunch foundation to some games that reach into the medium or even high crunch...

It's a scale, and if you put 5E at medium (especially in the middle of medium), then you create a ridiculous situation where almost all...

And it is 5 in your hand of domain cards, then a few more for actual class, subclass, species, etc, so the 9-ish range holds.

I noticed this and am sure it's intentional. There's a common and well-evidenced theory of game design that basically people can only...